| Type | information packaging |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Alarms ringing, the burglar fled |
| Definition |
the information added to the discourse context when a sentence is uttered, or, more precisely, the proposition expressed by a sentence which the hearer is expected to know or take for granted as a result of hearing the sentence uttered(Lambrecht 1994:52). Example: in Alarms ringing, the burglar fled, the clause the burglar fled is pragmatically asserted. The criterion typically used for pragmatic assertion is that the content of a sentence can be negated or questioned, though other criteria are sometimes used, such as hedging. (Sections 13.2.1, 15.1.2) |
| altLabel | pragmatically asserted |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 13.2.1 |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 15.1.2 |
| Function of | main clause |
| Subtype of | discourse structure |
The Model of Comparative concepts for Constructicon Alignment (MoCCA; Lorenzi et al. 2024) proposes to connect constructions across and within languages using Comparative Concepts as a shared base of comparison. It adopts the set of Comparative Concepts provided by Croft (2022).
Croft, William. 2022. Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World’s Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/morphosyntax/1AAB4F5F9C553F675170DCA3F03F82E2#contents. (14 October, 2025).
Lorenzi, Arthur, Peter Ljunglöf, Ben Lyngfelt, Tiago Timponi Torrent, William Croft, Alexander Ziem, Nina Böbel, Linnéa Bäckström, Peter Uhrig & Ely E Matos. 2024. MoCCA: A Model of Comparative Concepts for Aligning Constructicons. In Proceedings of the 20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation @ LREC-COLING 2024, 93–98. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.isa-1.12/. (22 July, 2025).
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